Marmoleum for Kitchen Floors?
As everyone on Brownstoner has been such a great help in planning our reno…..is there anyone who has done a Marmoleum floor? Any regrets or kudos? I was previously thinking engineered wood….but I am realizing one of the only things I will miss about leaving my rental apt. is the old-time lino floor (maybe from…
As everyone on Brownstoner has been such a great help in planning our reno…..is there anyone who has done a Marmoleum floor? Any regrets or kudos? I was previously thinking engineered wood….but I am realizing one of the only things I will miss about leaving my rental apt. is the old-time lino floor (maybe from the 70’s?).
I never considered linoleum but Marmoleum looks to be a different animal…..not going to do ceramic tile (like the clean-up but I cook a LOT and fear my legs will ache).
Thanks in advance.
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Renomandru, please keep me posted how it goes, if you would; any tips or ideas are greatly appreciated.
Now I am in battle with contractors on our home (with set amount of money) to get them to pay for this…..
Hi Sogo,
We must be in the same orbit. We have agonized over kitchen floor options and have decided to go with Marmoleum Click. Will probably order tomorrow from Bay Ridge carpet and Flooring. The color options are more limited, but we are going with very neutral colors to make the color we do have “pop” like Johny said. They were able to almost match a price I got over the internet, so we are going local.
I like the fact that Click can be installed easily (DIY). I am hoping that the dark colors we will go with don’t show dust too easily, but here goes nothing! And Scherr’s cabinets on top. With soapstone counters. Can’t wait.
Wow, I am really excited to go see the stuff (Friday, at Bay Ridge Carpet). I just hope we can afford it.
Thanks for all the sage advice.
Agree with the architect that the speckles on industrial commercial sheet vinyl flooring look at best like a dentist’s office and at worst like vomit. The marble patterns on Marmoleum look nothing like those industrial speckles. They are gorgeous.
Yes, I had a Marmoleum floor installed in our kitchen in November, and I absolutely love it. I admire it every day. I think it’s my favorite thing we have done so far to the house.
The main thing is you absolutely must get it installed by a certified installer. Other people may think they know how to install it, but they don’t and they will screw it up. To my knowledge, there are three in New York City (all on the Marmoleum web site): Aronson’s in Manhattan, Bergen Tile in Flushing, and Bay Ridge Carpet.
I visited all three and had two over to my house to measure. I think Bergen Tile was a couple hundred dollars cheaper than Bay Ridge, and Aronson’s sounded crazy expensive but I only got a guesstimate from them, not a real estimate based on real measurements. I ended up going with Bay Ridge because they were very straightforward to deal with and didn’t change around their price nine times. I’ve been very happy with them.
Another piece of advice: Before you order anything, make sure you view the samples in the kitchen where you are going to have it installed. It’s incredible how different colors look in different places.
There’s a lot of talk online about how Marmoleum looks “dirty.” Mine looks beautiful. It’s very important that you clean it ONLY with water or vinegar and water. Even using dish soap makes it a little cloudy, and ammonia will destroy it. It’s been super easy to clean. I just wipe some areas with a sponge every once in a while. We used a medium blue color (kind of a sky blue color) with a marble effect, which probably hides flaws better than a lighter color. The guy at Aronson’s told me he wouldn’t install the matte olive (plain with no marble pattern) on floors because the solid color would show every flaw.
Also, not every supplier has samples of every color made.
I thought it worked out to about $10 a square foot installed, but now that I puzzle over the math, it seems it’s more but I’m not sure because I don’t know the dimensions of our kitchen. I believe the third floor kitchen cost $1200 total, and it’s one of those ones on the side. It may be 11 by 7, but I’m not sure. We’re doing the downstairs kitchen later, and I think that’s 12 x 15 and cost $1800.
I’m very happy with it and am so glad we could do it.
About nine years ago we installed about 5,000 sf of a patterned marmoleum with welding rods in a large cafeteria. It’s used by about 250 people a day but it still looks great.
As someone pointed out above you do need to be carefull about the underlayment – if plywod joints are uneven or there’s a lot of joist movement, you will most likely start to see cracking in the short run. Our install was over cement.
You also need to use only soapy water to clean the floors – bleach or ammonia containing cleaners will damage the floor. The only problem we have had was when the range hood fire suppression deployed and chemicals leaked out from the quarry tiled kitchen into our cafeteria. The chemicals literally ate up a section of the floor but we simply got a Forbo vendor to come in and replace.
I don’t know… I just pulled up the marmoleum floor from our kitchen and am replacing it with cork. I think it looks like ass, but it could just be because the previous owner had terrible taste and installed the ugliest marmoleum ever made. Also, she was 96 when she died, and I am convinced she did not clean the floors for the last 20 years of her life (yeah, when I’m 90 hell if I’m cleaning either!).
isnt Marmoleum one of the contestants on RuPaul’s drag race this season!?!?
*rob*